Belt carried tape holder for electrical workers



ORKERS 2 Sheets-Sheet l D. KIENLE BELT CARRIED TAPE HOLDER FORELECTRICAL W May 17, 1949.

Filed Feb. 6, 1946 p INVENTOR. D 475/0045,

HTTRAzEY Patented May 17, 1949 BELT C ARRIED T ELECTRICAL DavidApplication APE HOLDER FOR WORKERS Kien1e, New York, N. Y. February 6,1946, Serial No. 645,788

1 Claim. (Cl. 242-654) body of the reel or roll, so that delay andwithout obtain a piece of tape without using special tools.

Another object of the invention is to provide a, tape roll holder, inwhich more than one roll of tape may be supported, so that the workmanmay have available adhesive friction tape and rubber tape.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a tapeholder with a cut off knife which may be adjusted to cutting position,or clamped in non-cutting position, and to provide a spring yieldingguard for this cutting knife, which will yield when a tape to be out ispressed against the guard.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention comprisescertain new and useful constructions, combinations and arrangements ofparts, clearly described in the following specifications and fullyillustrated in the drawings, in which:

Fig. l is a side view, showing the knife guard in raised position.

Fig. 2' is a similar view, showing the knife guard in lowered position,so that tape may be severed.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view, provided with four parallel tape Fig. 4 is aside view thereof.

Fig. 5 is a detail bottom plan view of the base plate which supports theadjustable cutting knife carrier.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates a main frame plate, which isformed with rearwardly disposed flanges 6 the plate. Each flange is t B,through which the body or garment belt 9 is extended, so that the platemay be strapped to the body of the workman.

A wooden shaft It is secured to one side of the plate 5 by means of thescrew or connector H, and on this shaft a plurality of tape rolls l2,i3, i4 and I!) may be mounted, disc washers It being arranged betweenthe adjacent sides of these rolls, A washer d c 11 is arranged adjacentthe outermost roll and a cotter pin I8 is extended through the roundedouter end portion of the of the rolls on the shaft.

To one side of shaft H! a plate showing a holder rolls.

H! is attached to the frame plate 5, by welding or otherwise. This plateis formed with a slot 190, through which screw 20 extends. The head ofthis screw is attached to the blade carrier plate 2!, on which the razoror cutting blade 22 is secured, as by means of the screws 23 and 2d Thecutting blade and its plate carrier 2| are adjusted by means of thescrew it, and the nut 25, so that the cutting edge of the blade 22 maybe clamped forwardly of the base or holding plate 19, or rearwardlythereof.

Above the cutting knife a U -shaped metal guard 26 is pivoted upon thestud shaft 21, and is normally held in an upper position by means of thespring arm 28, which extends from the spring coil 28a, secured on thepost or screw 29, which is attached to the frame plate 5.

Side flanges 26a of the U-shaped guard 26 are arranged to swingdownwardly along the outer edges of the plate I9, and the longitudinaledge of the guard to swing downwardly over the cutting blade, as shownin Fig. 2, under the pulling pressure applied on the end of the tape,and by pressing the tape against the cutting edge, which has beenclamped in cutting position, by operating the nut 25, the tape may besevered.

Immediately over the guard 26 a lever 30 is pivoted on the frame plate5, by means of rivet 1H, and on this lever or arm, presser feet 32, eachof spring construction, are mounted, so that they will engage the tapefrom one of the rolls. The lever or arm 30 may be swung upwardly, sothat its presser feet will be out of the path of the tapes, and a freshroll may be inserted in the holder.

It will be seen that my invention provides a tape holder, which may bestrapped to the belt of the workman, and that one of the rolls may beprovided with tape of the adhesive friction or tacky type, and anotherroll provided with heavy rubber tape, and the other rolls, when morethan two rolls are used, may be provided with other types of tape, orused for a reserve supply of the two kinds of tape named.

A radio worker, electrician, or repairman, may work continuously,without looking for tape, and without applying more than one hand to thepulling and cutting of the tape, and will therefore do better and morework.

Having described the invention it is understood that various changes inthe details of construction, their combination and arrangement may beresorted to, within the scope of the invention, as defined by the claimhereof.

I claim as new and patentable: hold the tape strips upon the guard, saidlever An electrical tape holder comprising a main with the pressure feetbeing adapted to be eleframe plate adapted to be connected to a strap,vatecl out of the path of the tape to permit the a stub shaft connectedto the plate and extending insertion of new rolls of tape. laterallytherefrom and adapted to support 301138 5 DAVID KIENLE- f electric ta e,means removably connec e o hestub shaft to prevent the displacement ofREFERENCES CITED the tape rollstherefrom, a member secured to Thefollowing references are of record in the the main frame plate andextending laterally file of this patent; therefrom and parallel to thestub shaft, cutting 19 UNITED STATES PATENTS member secured to the mainframeplate and Number Name Date F extending laterally therefrom abovethe 'firs't 534,118 Mason Feb. 12, 1895} member and parallel thereto, aspring biased 603,316 Bush May 3, 1893 guard pivoted on the secondmember and adapted 15 1,837,180 Bennett, Jr. et al. Dec. 15, 1931 i tobe extended over the cutting blade'means and 1,990,135 Sato Feb. 5, 1935serve as a support for the tape strips which have 2,352,445 PinckneyJune 27, 1944 been freed from the rolls, a lever pivoted upon l e mainframe plate and having a portion ex- FOREIGN PATENTS tending laterallyabove the tape strips and over m Number Country a the guard, pressurefeet secured to said portion 243,753 fi y July 1912

